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‘Most packages contain two tapes within a box about the size of a book, arranged on bookstore shelves with the spine displaying the author and title.’

‘Yet its opulent, mouldering furnishings appear intact, its books look down from the shelves, their spines unspoiled but their pages crumbled by termites.’

‘Skyway's trails are easy, and its northeastern section provides a dramatic view of the Book Cliffs, deeply eroded shale walls that resemble taupe book spines lined up on a shelf.’

‘The TV cabinet was a curbside find that Nan disguised with old book covers and spines to make it look like a bookcase.’

‘The books remained on the shelf, but their spines were broken.’

‘Fitzsimmons moved his light around and saw that the blood was splattered over one of the shelves and ran in rivulets down spines of the books.’

‘On the very first visit as I browsed the shelves, the name Miklos Szentkuthy on the spine of a book caught my eye and brought a flood of memories.’

‘As she entered the waiting room, she noticed Adam standing by the bookcase, looking at the titles printed on the spines of the books.’

‘Niko laughed at me when I ran my fingers across the book's spines and flipped through the pages in order to breathe in the scent of crisp parchment.’

‘The copyright page of my Random House Collegiate Dictionary, like the book's cover and spine, disappeared years ago.’

‘Yet the figurative illusion disappears when one peers under the glass shelves to read the spines of both Chinese and English books; then it is obvious these are not bodies, but books.’

‘Another strange detail in the image is revealed through a close examination of the book spines on a shelf in the room, among which a single title is reversed.’

‘It's fantastic news which should put the rest of us who aspire to have our names on book spines to shame…’

‘She'd run her fingers gently over the book spines and read the titles he kept on the shelf above his writing desk.’

‘There's two stacks: one with bent spines and dull covers, the other with straight spines and shiny perfect covers.’

2Zoology Botany Any hard pointed defensive projection or structure, such as a prickle of a hedgehog, a spikelike projection on a sea urchin, a sharp ray in a fish's fin, or a spike on the stem of a plant.

‘Moreover, the auxiliary spines project from the ventral spines at approximately the same angle.’

‘Bream have a needle sharp set of spines running through the dorsal fin similar to bass.’

‘The fins have strong leading rays, which form a row of sharp spines along the dorsal fin.’

‘The dorsal and pectoral fins have hard spines whereas the other rays are soft like the anal and caudal fins.’

‘The sheath of thin bony plates extends beyond the head to form spines dorsally and ventrally.’